does the world run on passive aggression

so miserable

open source this, open source that… do you realize that you have no way of verifying whether the “cloud” version of a self-hostable tool is identical to what’s on github? they might as well have a special version of their app running on their servers, filled with spyware.

They don’t need it though, because you never read the code in the first place. Spyware might as well be there, in plain sight, never to be discovered by you because they know people don’t read source code.

Also, when are you going to get it hosted? Because cloud is just someone else’s computer, remember that. If someone else has unrestricted physical access to your computer, it’s not your computer anymore. Your hoster can see everything that happens on your VPS.

Unless you’ve read the code and hosting it from your own home from your own physical server, it’s not your data. Check with your data provider — they often do offer fixed IP service for a small fee.

I host my own tools on my computer and let my phone sync with them through my home wifi. Yes, I can’t sync shit when I’m out there with my phone, but who needs that, I’ll just do that when I come home.

I’m about to vibe-audit the source code of Notesnook with AI!

How certain can we be, that AI Code Assistants or the companies behind them are "stealing" our proprietary code?

After mass downvoting a serial ad spammer, apparently I've lost my downvote privileges and all of my downvotes are removed. Fucking great.

Meanwhile devrant is flooded with 99% spam, nazi trolling, pseudo intellectual conspiracy nonsense and politics.

I‘m tired of this shit.

time traveller: *steps on a bug*
charli xcx: marina and the diamonds

Big sigh.

So I thought up a game for work.
I am calling it: "Head, Rear, or Other"
When you hear a random noise at work that sounds organic you can classify it as:
1. Head - a noise that comes out of the head
2. Rear - a noise that comes out of the rear
3. Other - unknown or unspecified noise source

Can be combos if need. Such as "Head or Rear".

So the first thing my coworker did was make motions like he had gas. I said "Head".

No.

reminding myself to calm the fuck down and just get this damn huge-ass feature implemented in this messy as fuck code base which is triggering me so badly.

One of our products we are supporting is selling so well. After 3 years, we are averaging 6 installs per month lmao

Alright so,

Japan has been deducting my salary every month:

1. Pension
2. Health Insurance
3. Employment insurance
4. Residence tax
5. Income tax

Almost 45% of my salary just disappears.

Also, it seems I can get back the pension when I leave Japan next year, up to 5 years of worth max. BUT IT'S FUCKING TAXED AGAIN.

WTF 20.42% TAX, YOU TOOK MY MONEY WITHOUT MY CONSENT AND NOW YOU WILL TAX IT TO GIVE IT BACK TO ME?? MOTHERFUCKERS.

FUCK YOU.

So many meetings, how could one be lonely

Before covid: everyone could become a friend!
After covid: most of people not.

That's what covid period did to me and thuw still affects me. Wish I could go back to the time that I was much more positive about general population.

But I know who to blame. The news and their polarisation. Never forget.

What they did was batshit crazy. I want to see people jailed.

They were not critical so they should not pretend to protect democracy. They were exactly when needed not doing their job and did spread propoganda.

I really pray, go bankrupt traditional media. Please.

I have to work with many people together today and I don't want to meet them. I don't want to leave more than 5km from my chalet unless skis are involved.

turns out Canada drinks arabica coffee

I tried this instant robusta coffee mix and it made me so calm and felt like a religious experience. love this coffee and it does seem to be different from all the other coffee I've been buying to try to find something else that feels like this

well turns out the grocery store discontinued selling this specific coffee... so I can't even get more. and everything else they sell is exclusively arabica

AI says robusta has more caffeine and chlorogenic acid but I think it's something else in this robusta coffee. even if I drink more arabica it's not the same feeling. how mysterious

something else interesting is all arabica makes me pee a lot and dehydrate, but the robusta has no such effect. so mysterious

The shortest rant ever that doesn't need any explanation: XCODE

This really resonated with me. The last job I had before doing my work as a full-time independent freelancer had all sorts of infantilization strategies. Parties, nerf gun wars, big lunch once a week, etc. I'm introverted and all of that stuff sapped my mental energy for the day, so my productivity suffered. It's daycare for adults.

https://nmn.gl/blog/...

Yocto definetly goes brrrrrrrrrrr on a 7950X!!!!

Google is down?

If you put Web3 on your resume, I'm rejecting you without even looking at the rest of your resume.

not @b2plane...

https://devrant.molodetz.nl/needfib...

just spent a good three days of my week off trying to figure out how to containerize a couple of services. nothing crazy, two frontends communicating with the same backend and then having it all be handled via a nginx reverse proxy.

i cannot overstate how much i do not like docker at this moment in time. it seems like every time i run into a solved issue for any underlying technology, docker *requires* you to figure out some workaround to do it differently. obviously my use case isn't exactly the docker use case (i am NEVER going to redeploy these services anywhere else and i will only ever develop locally and run remotely) but i cannot imagine myself keeping sane trying to configure this for anything larger. things just don't make sense in my brain here.

Just spent 5h figuring out why sending a serial command wont trigger in U-Boot. Was literally soldering wires to the boad, decoded the entire line with a scope, used several adapters, downloaded the firmware again and again over serial and USB-dfu and a looking for alternative boards online just to find out cutecom was set to send no LF after a command so U-Boot thought i was still typing something. This is literally the semicolon joke you see splattered over normie coding memes.

Man, the effort it takes to build a solid foundation in Computer Science. 3 years absolute minimum, 5 years recommended, 10 years so you can start relaxing more because you can rely on your foundation.

Video editing is hard af. I shifted from VSDC Free editor to Davinci Resolve now, and its kicking my ass.

That's all.

when you figure out a solution to something, do you think it's you who figured it out or did "inspiration" come to you somehow, out of nowhere, with the answer?

I never understood the programming language discussion thing. In modern programming, all you do is gluing APIs together, no matter if they're third party or built-in. My JS code is literally 95% fetch() followed by querySelector.

All built-in APIs that do something useful are just linking C++ modules. If you're not doing stupid shit, Python is exactly as fast as C++ or Rust.

The only scenario where speed matters is algos. Guess what? You should write your algos in C and link them to your Node/Python/Go/whatever code. And don't even get me started on reinventing algos. Do you really think you can write an algo in one evening that will be more efficient than what the guy whose PhD thesis it was a part of?

Just because some engine parts require the precision only a million-dollar CNC machine can provide, doesn't matter you have to cut the whole car out of a solid block of high-performance engine block alloy.

Remember kids, sorting array in Python is always faster than sorting array in C, because Python's sort was written by someone else who's smarter than you, went through years of scrutiny and iteration, and doesn't have stupid novice algo complexity errors.

Grow up.

Gets annoying laughing at my own jokes all day

I just keep reinventing javascript

Week : 84 (Year 1 )

How is the weekend going?

What is a fantasy that is insanely hot to you, but you know you could never pull off in reality?

last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/14638873

I think I speak for many developers when I say:

One of the most infuriating, frustrating, personal-time-invading burnout situations ever:

When your company decides to be cool and hip and hop on every next new technology, selling its employees as undisputed experts and then expecting them to do all the work! And not wanting to pay education hours, stigmatizing the employees for it! What are we, born perfect?!

Oh, as if it wasn't enough that I have to perfect myself in three required skillsets that are expansive on their own and require years of learning, no! Not enough! Let's become experts in three other skills while we're at it! Hop on the bandwagon, wooh! Let's milk the employee more!

I'm so frustrated at this point I'm starting to make Godzilla noises.

You know what? I'm just going to do what I want. Fucking tired of this tech-chasing. I'm gonna fucking explore what I want.